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Cath Senker – author, editor and RLF Consultant Fellow
I have more than 25 years’ experience in publishing and have written around 160 books for children of all ages, specialising in history, biography, global
and social issues, world religions, human geography and environmental topics. I undertake project management of books for children
and adults as well as all kinds of editorial work on educational and craft books; children’s fiction and non-fiction educational and
trade titles; academic reports and online materials. I am a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development
workshops for undergraduate and postgraduate students. In May 2018, I was appointed by the University of Sussex as an Academic Skills Consultant.
In April 2018, I was delighted to hear that my title Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty had been long-listed for the SLA Information Book Award:
I have written two non-fiction titles for adults. The first is Cybercrime and the Darknet.
In June 2017 I published Stranded in the Six-Day War, the extraordinary story of the 14 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967.
This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It’s full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.
Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East)
Please scroll down for further reviews.
You can buy the book:
1 (UK only) By posting a cheque for £14.50 incl P&P payable to Ms C R Senker with your name and address to:
4th Floor, 60 Lansdowne Place
Hove BN3 1FG, East Sussex
2 From City Books, Hove and the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool for £11.99.
3 Using the PayPal Add to Cart button below. You do not need a PayPal account.
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For multiple copies, please email me for prices. Thank you
Reviews
Stranded in the Six-Day War is reviewed in the Nautilus Telegraph, August 2017:
https://nautilusint.org/en/what-we-say/telegraph/
Reader reviews
This book is a wonderful account of merchant seafarers’ cooperation and formation of a community despite the national and political divides of the Cold War; all while the major players in the Cold War used the Israeli/Palestinian/Arab conflict as a football in their ideological/ political ‘game’. A timely addition to your background reading if interested in the on-going problems for all concerned in the Middle East. Gerrie Purcell, April 2018
I read your whole book yesterday, until quite late into the night, totally absorbed. You’ve certainly put your heart into it. I learned a lot from it which I previously didn’t know, especially about the early days. Well done Cath! Captain A. W. Kinghorn, August 2017 (Chief Officer, Scottish Star, 1968 and author of Before the Box Boats, 1983)
I’ve now read your book Stranded in the 6 day war. It’s superb; you should be congratulated on what you’ve done and you must be proud of the results. Ian Lister, June 2017 (Chief Officer, Port Invercargill, 1967–68)
I have long waited for a book about those trapped ships. Now it has arrived! Philip Roe, June 2017
I must congratulate you on your book. I have enjoyed reading it. It’s very good and I do not know how you obtained all the information. Phil Roberts, June 2017 (4th Engineer, Agalampus, 1968)
I was most impressed with the extensive level of detail and the research Cath has carried out on the ships in the lake; she has done us proud. Brendan Mulhall, June 2017 (Chief Electrician, Port Invercargill, 1968)
As the book progressed from the early days, which I could associate with very clearly, to the high times of the GBLA’s heyday twelve months or so later, I began to wish I had applied to go back for a three month stint. That wonderful community with no borders would’ve been an incredible experience. However, thanks to your great writing I travelled there fifty years later from my armchair on holiday in Queensland. John Sadler, July 2017 (Senior Apprentice, Port Invercargill, 1967)
Recent Work
My Services
Writing
As an experienced children's non-fiction author, I write thoroughly researched non-fiction materials in a clear, accessible way, with meticulous attention to detail. I ensure the...
Teaching
TRAINING WORKSHOPSAs a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, I currently run workshops for undergraduate and postgraduate university students on all aspects of...
Editing
Why Choose Me?
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I have a background as an editor for a publishing company and more than 25 years' experience of writing and editing books for the international market.
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